It's An Honor Being Nominated!

I was nominated for Best NEW Homeschool Blog at the The Homeschool Post 2010 Blog Awards!

What an honor!

If you would like to vote for me, go here. Scroll to the bottom and click on the dot next to Journey to Excellence and then go down and click "Vote". Tell your friends to vote, too!

And then go vote in one of the other 19 categories, or all of them for that matter. Many of my favorite homeschool blogs have been nominated.

It truly is an honor just to be nominated!

If you are stopping by from The Homeschool Post, Welcome!

This is our first year homeschooling. It is quite honestly nothing I ever thought we would do. You can read all about our reasons to bring home our son, Dawson, after 8 years of public school, here.

We believe strongly in assessing each of our children individually and making decisions based on what is best for each one. At the beginning of school Dawson was the only one we had home. Within five weeks we brought home our youngest child, Brynne, for completely different reasons. You can read about those reasons here.

Two of our children are still in public school. They will stay that way unless and until we decide it would be best to bring them home. Honestly our oldest would die a slow death if she wasn't in school. She's a sophomore. Our third child is in the 1st grade and has some special needs that he gets excellent special services for at school. Besides, he loves it there.

Anyway, I have found that homeschooling is the funnest thing I have ever done in my life! I love it! I feel like I am a little girl getting to play school every day. And I have wonderful students! I have never experienced so much joy as I do in seeing my children learn. And I have learned so much myself. I am a schedule and order freak, so it has surprised me that I am leaning toward a Charlotte Mason-ish style of homeschooling. I know that we will continue to evolve in our homeschooling journey. I hope that you will sign on to follow it.

Thanks for stopping by!

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ABCya

Eli's reading resource teacher shared a website with me yesterday that I would like to pass along. It's called ABCya . There are separate educational sections with fantastic games for ages kindergarten through 5th grade. I browsed the 2nd grade level, and it includes age-appropriate games about Letters, Numbers, Shapes, Geometry, Patterns, Mouse Manipulation, Art and Holiday games. There are lots and lots of fun and creative games for children to play. They are fun, but oh, so educational. Eli's favorite, in his short time playing it, was Create a Car . A lot of the games also have Apps available for purchase (99 cents for most of them) for the iPad and iPhone. I have been looking for another free website for games similar to Starfall , for some time. I think I have found it. I can feel confident having Eli and Brynne play these games.

Cells ~ It's What's for Dinner

Dawson made edible cells on Friday. He made an animal cell pizza ... and a plant cell chocolate chip cookie ... He reviewed what he's learned about cells the past two weeks, and I had dinner made by someone else. Win, win!! I am linking up at Science Sunday at Adventures in Mommydom.

Last Child in the Woods ~ Chapters 1-4

Welcome to our book study of Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv. To be honest, I have no idea what this "study" is going to look like. I imagine that when we get together I will post about all of the things that caught my eye. And I would ask that you leave a comment, or a link to your own blog post in the comment, about what caught yours. This isn't anything formal, ladies, just a place to talk about what we have read. I have now read the first four chapters of Last Child in the Woods two times. It is just so good. Several things have specifically hit me deep, but in general I just realized that "times, they are a changin'." Things aren't the way they were when we were kids. Chapter 1. Gifts of Nature ~ "When I see birches bend to left and right ... I like to think some boy's been swinging them." ~ Robert Frost What is your definition of nature? What feelings, visions, senses does it conjure up? For me, it's not a

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